Horn vs Chime - What's the difference?
horn | chime |
(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
An antler.
(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
* Thomson
* Mason
# The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
# (architecture) The Ionic volute.
# (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
# (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
# One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
#* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 28
(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
(countable) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
(countable) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
(informal, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
(slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
(uncountable, coarse, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
(countable) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn ."
(countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o' and '''u''' when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming '''?''' and ' ? .
(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias ).
(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes .
An individual ringing component of such a set.
A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
The sound of such an instrument or device.
A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
To make the sound of a chime.
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
* Dryden
To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
* Byron
To agree; to correspond.
* Washington Irving
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
As a proper noun horn
is one of the names of freyja.As a noun chime is
(musical instruments) a musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (eg a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes or chime can be a chine; the edge of a cask.As a verb chime is
to make the sound of a chime.horn
English
Noun
- an umbrella with a handle made of horn
- The moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns .
- horns of mead and ale
- Joab caught hold on the horns of the altar
- hunting horn
- antenna horn
- loudspeaker horn
Usage notes
* When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either "hunting horn" or "French horn", depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as "English horn" or "basset horn".Synonyms
* (growth on the heads of certain animals) * (hard substance from which horns are made) keratin * (any of several musical wind instruments) * (instrument used to signal others) * hooter, klaxon * (conical device used to direct waves) funnel * * blower (UK''), dog and bone (''Cockney rhyming slang ), phone * boner (US ), hard-on, stiffyDerived terms
* blowhorn * bullhorn * French horn * have the horn * horned * horn in * hornist * horn of plenty * hornless * hornworm * hornwort * horny * lock horns * pull in one's horns * shoehorn * take the bull by the horns * toot one's own horn ----chime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cymbalum'' (perhaps via (etyl) ''chimbe ).Noun
(en noun)- Sylvia had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.
- Hugo was a chime player in the school orchestra.
- Peter removed the C
- chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath.
- The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered.
- The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.
- Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it.
Derived terms
* chimistSynonyms
(Synonyms) * alarm * bell * buzz * buzzer * carillon * clapper * curfew * dinger * ding-dong * gong * peal * ringer * siren * tintinnabulum * tocsin * toll * vesperVerb
(chim)- The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.
- I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon.
- And chime their sounding hammers.
- Chime his childish verse.
- The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.
- Everything chimed in with such a humor.
- (Cowley)
